Identification of Booth's body

[Rob Wick]

Thanks Laurie. However, the more time I spend with this bugle oil, the less time I spend with Tarbell, who also found herself dealing with those who believed Booth had escaped.

I would also agree with Laurie to be careful in using Donald Winkler's book. Speaking only for myself, it is nothing but a poorly-done regurgitation of Eisenschiml. Mr. Winkler and I got into a bit of a tiff over his work at one point. It's worse than worthless.

There is no question that Robert Krick is a very respected Civil War historian. There's also no question that many of the points you seem to anchor your argument to are merely subjective interpretations of things. "Booth’s appearance was 'respectable'" What does that even mean? Respectable has nothing to do with whether or not Booth was exhausted from being on the run. You keep going back to this "drastic" change as described by May, but if you read May's comments, not once did he say the body wasn't Booth's. In fact, he went out of his way to say it was. Of course, I'm sure he was part of the conspiracy, either by being forced into it or on his own volition. Yeah, right.

I'm going back to Ida Tarbell. At least there I can deal with solid, factual evidence and not lies emanating from some phantom mists.

Best
Rob